Infringement notices
An infringement notice is a written notice of an alleged infringement offence under the Resource Management Act, issued in accordance with the Summary Proceedings Act.
An infringement notice requires the payment of a fee of an amount fixed by regulations. Payment of the fine does not lead to the recording of a criminal conviction.
Infringement notices are suitable for responding quickly to relatively moderate offences that do not warrant prosecution.
Infringement notice~~
| Name of offender | Incident Date | Amount | Incident | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P & E Limited | 30/08 to 9/11/2022 | $500.00 | Took water from WAP L35/1104 in breach of condition 5.b. (iii) of Resource Consent CRC981333.7 | Sheffield |
| Vaughan, Dan | 5/08/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants in breach of rule 7.7 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Woodend |
| Lime Developments Ltd | 26/07/2023 | $750.00 | Contravened an abatement notice: did not cease and continue to cease the discharge of construction-phase stormwater, onto or into land where may enter water. Contravention of conditions 2 and 13 of Resource Consent CRC223735. | Lincoln |
| Lime Developments Ltd | 26/07/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants from the unstabilised construction site, namely sediment-laden stormwater into or onto land where may enter water not in accordance with condition 4 and 13 of Resource Consent CRC223735. | Lincoln |
| Prowse, Thomas | 26/07/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Amberley |
| Ashburton Powdercoating | 19/07/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharged, namely dust into air from an industrial/trade premises, which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the property. | Methven |
| Humm Engineering Ltd | 19/07/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants namely dust into air from an industrial or trade premises, which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the property. | Methven |
| White, William | 19/07/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Loburn |
| Foodstuffs (South Island) Properties Ltd | 26/06/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely diluted propylene glycol from an industrial or trade premises into or onto land. | Christchurch |
| Lincoln University | 26/06/2023 | $750.00 | Permitted the use of land for the excavation of material over the coastal confined aquifer system when more than 100 cubic metres of material was excavated and the excavation occurred within 50 metres of a surface waterbody, namely Springs Drain. In breach of Rule 5.175(1)(b) of the Canterbury Regional Council Land and Water Plan. | Lincoln |
| Leighs Construction Ltd | 8/06/2023 | $750.00 | Contravened Rule 5.99 (4a) of the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan, when dewatering of sediment ladened water contained a concentration of total suspended solids that exceeded 50 g/m onto land. | Christchurch |
| DevCorp Ltd | 6/06/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants from the unstabilised construction site, namely sediment-laden stormwater into or onto land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Lincoln |
| Geoff Hill Cobble and Landscape Ltd | 25/05/2023 | $500.00 | Disturbed the bed of the Percival River when earthworks were undertaken - the extraction of gravel in flowing water. | Hanmer Springs |
| Pulley, Mike | 19/05/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Methven |
| Concrete Brothers Ltd | 12/05/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely sediment-laden water onto or into land which entered the kerb and channel and which entered the stormwater system water. | Christchurch |
| Cloverdale Dairies Ltd | 8/05/2023 | $750.00 | Discharge of contaminants by contract milker, namely dairy effluent from a travelling irrigator resulting in ponding onto land in circumstances where it may enter water in breach of conditions 5c of Resource Consent CRC141720. | Lagmhor |
| New Zermatt Properties Ltd | 21/04/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants. | Birchwood |
| Cleave, Joshua | 19/04/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Oxford |
| Cleave, Joshua | 19/04/2023 | $300.00 | Used land in a manner that contravened the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Rule 5.148 (4a) - excavated more than 5 cubic metres of gravel from the Eyre River bed within a 12 month consecutive period. | Oxford |
| Ellesmere Transport Company Ltd | 18/04/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely chemicals used in the truck washing process into or onto land where may enter water. | Leeston |
| Ellesmere Transport Company Ltd | 18/04/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely fertiliser and or agricultural lime from the process of loading trucks into or onto land where may enter water. | Leeston |
| Construction Contracting NZ Ltd | 6/04/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely sediment-laden stormwater without treatment as required by the Erosion and Sediment Control plan onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water not in accordance with conditions 3a & 10 of Resource Consent CRC221958. | Christchurch |
| J S Building and Developments Ltd | 22/03/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants into land, namely sediment laden water to the kerb and channel which may enter the stormwater network | Christchurch |
| Pyramid Valley Engineering Ltd | 8/03/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely general household waste into or onto land where may enter water. | Waikari |
| Hurunui District Council | 8/03/2023 | $1,000.00 | Breached condition 7 of Resource Consent CRC951176 by failing to comply with clause 5.0 of the post closure management plan for the Waikari landfill dated June 2003. | Waikari |
| Waste Management NZ Ltd | 1/03/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Palmers Transport Ltd | 28/02/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely fertiliser onto land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Southbridge |
| Palmers Transport Ltd | 28/02/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely fertiliser from an industrial or trade premises onto land. | Southbridge |
| City Care Water Ltd | 23/02/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants onto or into land namely sediment and concrete which entered the kerb and channel and which may enter the stormwater system water and waterway. | Christchurch |
| Reed, Steve | 19/02/2023 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Darfield |
| Preece, Alfred | 15/02/2023 | $300.00 | Used land in a manner that contravened Rules 5.71 and 11.5.20 of the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan - allowed stock unrestricted access to a drain with water in it within the Selwyn Te Waihora subregion and any associated discharge that resulted in pugging and devegetation that exposed bare earth in the bed including the banks of the drain. | Motukarara |
| Preece, Alfred | 15/02/2023 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants into water, namely effluent from farmed cattle when stock had unrestricted access to wetlands and a water filled drain. | Motukarara |
| Container Transport & Storage 2002 Ltd | 2/02/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants from an industrial or trade premises into air, namely dust which was offensive and objectionable beyond the boundary of the property. | Christchurch |
| Container Transport & Storage 2002 Ltd | 2/02/2023 | $750 | Contravened an abatement notice - did not cease and continue to cease the discharge of a contaminants, namely dust into air which was offensive and objectional beyond the boundary of the property. | Christchurch |
| Oxford Agricultural Services Ltd | 31/01/2023 | $1,000 | Discharged contaminants into the air from an industrial or trade premises when metals, plastics and treated timber were burnt. | Oxford |
| Christchurch City Council | 31/01/2023 | $1,000 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 31/01/2023 | $750 | Contravention of an abatement notice, namely failing to cease and continue to cease the discharge of offensive and objectionable odour beyond the property boundary - contravenes condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1. | Christchurch |
| Waste Management NZ Ltd | 31/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 26/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 26/01/2023 | $750.00 | Contravention of an abatement notice, namely failing to cease and continue to cease the discharge of offensive and objectionable odour beyond the property boundary - contravenes condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1. | Christchurch |
| Waste Management NZ Ltd | 26/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Waste Management NZ Ltd | 15/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 15/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 15/01/2023 | $750.00 | Contravention of an abatement notice, namely failing to cease and continue to cease the discharge of offensive and objectionable odour beyond the property boundary - contravenes condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1. | Christchurch |
| Waste Management NZ Ltd | 10/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 10/01/2023 | $1,000.00 | Discharging contaminants (namely odour) from an industrial or trade premises (being an odour which was offensive or objectionable beyond the boundary of the site, in breach of condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1). | Christchurch |
| Christchurch City Council | 10/01/2023 | $750.00 | Contravention of an abatement notice, namely failing to cease and continue to cease the discharge of offensive and objectionable odour beyond the property boundary - contravenes condition 27 of Resource Consent CRC080301.1. | Christchurch |
| P & E Limited | 6/01/2023 | $500 | Water was taken from WAP L35/1104 in breach of condition 5.a.(i) of Resource Consent CRC981333.7 | Sheffield |
| Solvent Rescue (1999) Ltd | 12/12/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely but not limited to oil and other hazardous waste onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Hunter Civil Ltd | 30/11/2022 | $500.00 | Disturbed the bed of a waterway in breach of resource consent CRC146620 conditions. Dewatering of sediment-laden water was discharged into the bed of Bings Drain, not following the dewatering procedure and eroding the bottom of the waterway. | Christchurch |
| Hunter Civil Ltd | 30/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants into water, namely sediment into Bings Drain. | Christchurch |
| Ongrade Drainage & Excavation Ltd | 30/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants into water, namely sediment into Bings Drain when upstream water was pumped into a sediment retention tank which had been mixed with sediment ladened water from the excavation trench. This sediment-laden water was then discharged directly into the bed of Bings Drain. | Christchurch |
| Ongrade Drainage & Excavation Ltd | 30/11/2022 | $500.00 | Disturbed the bed of a waterway, namely Bings Drain, in breach of Resource Consent CRC146620 conditions. Not following the dewatering procedure when undertaking renewal works that crossed Bings Drain, sediment laden water was discharged via the retention tank directly into the bed of Bings Drain eroding the bottom of the waterway. | Christchurch |
| McCarthy, Robert | 30/11/2022 | $500.00 | Stock in waterway resulting in pugging of the bank and bed. | Halswell, Christchurch |
| Prime Environmental Ltd | 28/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely milk and fat residue onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Rossendale Holdings Ltd | 21/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely sediment-laden water in breach of condition 19 of Resource Consent CRC181139 | Halswell, Christchurch |
| Paton, Robert Selwyn | 18/11/2022 | $300.00 | Burning of contaminants | Rolleston |
| Pareora Dairy Farming Ltd | 21/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely dairy effluent which ponded onto land, and which may enter water in breach of conditions 5 of Resource Consent CRC161537. | Saint Andrews |
| Steele, Brad Anton | 20/10/2022 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Loburn |
| Steele, Brad Anton | 20/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants - demolition waste namely but not limited to metals, treated timber plastics and other materials onto or into land where it may enter water. | Loburn |
| Hansen Total Contracting Ltd | 14/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely concrete and sediment onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Te Kohaka o Tuhaitara Trust | 5/10/2022 | $500.00 | Diverted water from a wetland - undertook works to open a drainage channel from the wetland to a drain which links to the Kairaki Stream | Woodend |
| Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete Ltd | 29/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely concrete and grease onto or into land which may enter water | Woodend |
| Street & Cook Construction Company Ltd | 27/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely paint and plaster wash water into and onto land which may enter water | Christchurch |
| Bishop, Daniel Wayne | 23/09/2022 | $500.00 | Stock in waterway resulting in pugging of the bank and bed. | Kurow |
| Tuffnell Drainage Ltd | 15/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged a contaminant, namely sediment-laden water and sediment onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water | Leeston |
| A1 Diggers Limited | 14/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminant namely sediment-laden water onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Miller, Brian | 10/09/2022 | $300.00 | Discharged contaminants into the air, namely particulates in the form of smoke, when specified waste was burnt, namely but not limited to green pine, metal waratahs, wire and plastic on an outdoor fire in breach of Rules 7.14 and 7.7 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Christchurch |
| Greg Donaldson Contracting Ltd | 8/09/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants into air from an industrial/trade premises, when items were burnt namely vegetation, trade waste, painted wood and wet straw bales. | Tinwald |
| Scott Lilly Developments Ltd | 6/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely sediment onto land in circumstances which may enter water | Woodend |
| Luisetti Properties Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely lead, treated timber and metals onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water. | Rangiora |
| Luisetti Properties Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants. | Rangiora |
| Gen-Y Homes Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged sediment into or onto land in circumstances which may enter water | Woodend |